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Index
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1 John Billington: Mayflower Murderer
2 Mary Dyer: Quaker Martyr
3 Anne Bonny: Pirate of the Caribbean
4 Tom Quick: “The Indian Slayer”
5 Mary Jemison: “The White Woman of the Genesee”
6 William Dawes: The Other Midnight Rider
7 James T. Callender: Muckraker for the First Amendment
8 John Ledyard: The Explorer Who Dreamed of Walking the World
9 Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: Royal American
10 Stephen Pleasonton: The Clerk Who Saved the Constitution (and the Declaration of Independence, Too)
11 Richard Mentor Johnson: The Veep Who Killed Tecumseh
12 Zilpha Elaw: An Unlikely Evangelist
13 Edwin Forrest: American Idol
14 Rose O’Neale Greenhow: A Spy of Grande Dame Proportions
15 Clement Vallandigham: Copperhead
16 Mary Surratt: The Mother of Conspirators?
17 Tunis Campbell: Pillar of Reconstruction
18 Sarah Winnemucca: “Paiute Princess”
19 Alexander “Boss” Shepherd: The Man Who Made Washington “Worthy of the Nation”
20 Isaac C. Parker: “The Hanging Judge”
21 Hetty Green: “The Witch of Wall Street”
22 Oliver Curtis Perry: Outlaw of the East
23 Anna Jarvis: The Mother of Mother’s Day
24 William J. Burns: “America’s Sherlock Holmes”
25 Gaston B. Means: American Scoundrel
26 Louise Arner Boyd: The Socialite Who Conquered the Arctic Wilderness
27 Beulah Louise Henry: “Lady Edison”
28 Guy Gabaldon: “The Pied Piper of Saipan”
29 Elizabeth Bentley: “Red Spy Queen”
30 Dick Fosbury: Father of the Flop
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments
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